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Crowdfunding Round-up: Re-explore Mare Nostrum, Relish Mottainai, Revisit an Early Epoch & Recoil from My Confession

Crowdfunding Round-up: Re-explore Mare Nostrum, Relish Mottainai, Revisit an Early Epoch & Recoil from My Confession
Board Game: Middara: Unintentional Malum – Act 1
Board Game: Mare Nostrum: Empires
Flat >>>> 3D
• Another Sunday, another round-up of publishers passing the plate to find funding for their projects, starting with a project that's been in the works for years: a new version of Mare Nostrum from designer Serge Laget and publishers Asyncron Games and Acadamy Games "with updated rules, counters, and map board". Word on the street is the Mythology Expansion that made the original game so much better has been incorporated into the base game, along with a rejiggering of many other things. (KS link)

• One Hit Kill, to be self-published by designers John August and Ryan Nelson, bears a description that will likely convert some percentage of onlookers to backers without needing additional info: "a card game of ridiculously overpowered weapons and monsters and cuddly rabbits". (KS link)

• Beautiful Disaster Games has already racked up piles of funding for a second edition of Assault on Doomrock as well as a new expansion, Assault on Doomrock: Doompocalypse. I predict more doom. (KS link)

• The miniatures portion of this write-up comes courtesy of Middara, a 1-4 player cooperative storytelling game that's sporting rainbow-flavored anime art. (KS link)

Board Game: Middara: Unintentional Malum – Act 1


Board Game: Mottainai
• The biggest KS project for me is Carl Chudyk's Mottainai from Asmadi Games, mostly because I love all of the Chudyk games that I've played. I've refrained from playing the print-and-play of this design, which takes the spirit of Glory to Rome and puts it into a new package, but I have faith what will come. That's the mantra of KS backers, yes? (KS link)

• Skull Tales from David Illescas and 4Moon Studio has a surprising number of "10" ratings from new BGG users, but perhaps all of these Spanish supporters have played the prototype of this miniatures-based pirate game. I'm sure that spending lots of time discussing how to discourage such ratings in the future will be fruitful, so let's all get right to that, okay? (KS link)

• Artem Safarov's Cauldron from Altema Games is another take on a familiar game setting: Collect a whole bunch of ingredients, then mix them into potions while also casting spells at one another. You will have to investigate this project yourself if you want to see how it differs from other such designs. (KS link)

• Mayday Games has a new version of Justin Oh's Click Clack Lumberjack on KS, with this version combining the plastic woodiness of the original with the three-color sparkle of Bling Bling Gemstone, with the golden axe and other sweeteners drawing additional dollars from your wallet one by one as you pimp out your wood. (KS link)

Board Game: Domus Domini
Please fund me...
• German publisher franjos is having a second go at funding Domus Domini from Heinz-Georg Thiemann. This monkish game is 180º in aesthetics from Thiemann's first release — Planet Steam — and the contrast makes me curious to see them combined. (Startnext link)

• Also having second run for the funds is WarQuest from Glenn Drover, L4 Studios and Mr. B Games, although as Drover points out, many of the stretch goals have been converted to automatic rewards for backers, so apparently these guys are content to make nothing on this project in order to make folks happy and ensure long-term support. (KS link)

• Yet another two-timer on KS is the "resurrected edition" of Stephen Tassie's Grave Robbers From Outer Space, which was part of Z-Man Games' "B-Movie Series" when it first appeared in 2001 and will perhaps now reappear from Tassie on his own. (KS link)

• When you see a project with a $50k goal sitting at $640 in support, as with Mitsuo Yamamoto's Sky Scrapers from Logy Games, you can't help but wonder, "Will they try again after this first contact with reality?" (KS link)

Board Game: Epoch: Early Inventors
• Dutch designer/publisher Martyn F. of Emma Games is attempting to fund his Spiel 2015 release Epoch: Early Inventors, with the low-key cover embodying the setting of this game, with players going back to the dawn of civilized time when early man took actions on a hexagonal landscape and developed society through the use of small pieces of cardboard. (KS link)

• Cunning Folk from Jay E. Treat, III and Button Shy is a microgame with people pretending to be other people. (KS link)

• In early May 2015, I noted that the designers of Crysis Analogue Edition — Sebastian Kreutz and Dominik Lau — had recovered the license and were going to publish it on their own through the publishing brand Frame6, and a KS project for that effort is now live. (KS link)

• Former Crysis partner Queen Games is on KS with Shogun Big Box, which adds three new mini-expansions to the base game and one other expansion, because...why not? (KS link)

• I'm not exactly sure what's going on in Mika Rosendahl's Cabals: The Board Game from KYY Games, a deck-building board game based on the Cabals: Magic & Battle Cards video that features underground secret societies of spies, witches, faeries and magicians battling for world domination after World War I, but I want to have sex with this cover. (KS link)

Board Game: Cabals: The Board Game

Editor's note: Please don't post links to other Kickstarter projects in the comments section. Write to me via the email address in the header, and I'll consider them for inclusion in a future crowdfunding round-up. Thanks! —WEM

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